redneck /ˈɹɛdnɛk/ noun5 •(slang, offensive) A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and Northeast, especially one whose beliefs are seen as unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted. •(offensive) yokel, hick, country bumpkinSample a look back you look and find / Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check — 1989 •(US, slang) Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921. •(US, slang) A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859. •(offensive, no longer used) A Roman Catholic. formsrednecks